Event congruency and episodic encoding: A developmental fMRI study

► Children and adults scanned while encoding (in)congruous noun-color combinations. ► At subsequent recognition adults and children had better memory for congruent items. ► Encoding activation for remembered items was compared across age and congruency. ► Adults recruited regions primarily associated with semantic-conceptual processing. ► Children recruited regions earlier in the processing stream (occipital cortex).